Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After such a great victory, they would obviously need to hold a celebration. Jiang Chen, Fengyu Duo, Ji Yinyi, and the others were all drinking and celebrating in the Sacred Territory’s greatest city. Jiang Chen was quite excited because he had managed to achieve one of his life’s greatest wishes. He didn’t care at all about the Invincible God of War title, but about his senior sister.
Usually, he would have already gone to look for his inheritance and raised his power, but tonight, as he looked at the starry night sky and felt the breeze on his face, he felt peaceful and serene for the first time since his rebirth. The others were still drinking wine, coming up on the third day. They all felt like they wanted to continue drinking forever.
“Jiang Chen, are you concerned about something?” Ji Yinyi appeared by his side at and spoke softly. When Jiang Chen left the Desolate Land and officially started his trip in the Three Middle Realms, she was by his side. They had been traveling together ever since. Jiang Chen mulled it over for a moment before he stated what was on his mind.
“So it turned out that it was this.” Ji Yinyi was quite surprised to hear that Jiang Chen was in love with the Ice Spirit Clan’s spiritual lady, who he had met while she was hiding from the Seedlings Extermination Operation. Spirits were always arrogant, haughty, and looked down upon all humans. They surely couldn’t accept that the heart of their spiritual lady was stolen by a mortal man.
This was why Ji Yinyi was quite moved when she heard that Jiang Chen took such a trip just to charge into the Ice Spirit Clan’s land and prove himself. She really couldn’t imagine how great the courage a person from the Nine Heavens Realm would need to take such a decision, yet he still had done it. Ji Yinyi was quite carefree and relaxed now, and, as she looked at Jiang Chen, her sight was blurred and her face was flushed. She had already drunk many glasses of wine and wasn’t as bashful as usual.
“Are you resigned to just going to the Spirit Clan like this?” Ji Yinyi tried to change the topic.
Jiang Chen scratched his head and smiled sheepishly. He said, “It isn’t what I have imagined, and even though it’s satisfactory, I still feel I won’t have the freedom to act independently anymore.” Even though Jiang Chen had already accepted Elder Bing Shan’s offer, he still couldn’t help but have such a thought.
“You want to charge alone into the Ice Spirit Clan, snatch your beloved, and teach the Ice Spirit Clan a lesson, don’t you?”
Upon hearing her, Jiang Chen hesitated slightly before he nodded.
“I really don’t think that a sensible person like you would consider such a matter. It’s like the idiom, life has its ups and downs. I really shouldn’t look down on a poor and weak young man.” Ji Yinyi revealed her pearly white teeth, while a crafty glint flickered in her pretty eyes.
“It isn’t that crazy,” Jiang Chen said with a bitter smile.
“Have you considered how your beloved will feel if you try this?”
Ji Yinyi stopped smiling and spoke while wearing a stern look, “After all, she’s a Spirit, and the Ice Spirit Clan is her family with her friends and relatives. I don’t know whether she will decide to accompany you, but she won’t be accompanied by her friends and won’t be blessed by her parents’ good wishes. In the end, she will still be lacking something.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen was moved emotionally. He was really being selfish.
“I understand, I’m really grateful to you,” Jiang Chen said.
“You don’t have to be this polite. I’m your little sister.” Ji Yinyi rolled her eyes.
Then Jiang Chen just turned around and went back to the other room. Frustration and sadness appeared on her face. Even though she had spoken boldly, she was quite sad inwardly.
After another two days had passed, their celebration neared its end. Jiang Chen bid farewell to Fengyu Duo and asked them to send his regards to their teacher. Li Bai went back to the Wing Prefecture, while his senior brother, Xia Yiming, left the next morning
“Jiang Chen, you should be careful, I just got the news that the Wind, Fire, and Wood Spirit Clans had all paid a large sum to invite the Nether World School’s killers to kill you and take revenge,” Tian Ling said. What was worth mentioning was that the reason the three Spirit Clans paid for it together was that none of them could afford the price asked by the Nether World School. The stronger the target, the more expensive the price would be. The Spirit Clans discovered that the price they would need to pay for the Nether World School to kill Jiang Chen wasn’t any lower than what they would need to pay for the life of a Blood Shadow Dynasty’s prince. The Nether World School’s explanation for it was that Jiang Chen was a Martial Sovereign’s follower.
“I will be careful.” Jiang Chen really wanted to know where Tian Ling had gotten such news. This headmistress of the Civil and Martial Arts Institute was really mysterious. She didn’t belong to any of the Three Middle Realms’ factions, yet all the factions treated her with respect. Moreover, she still had a good relationship with the Martial Emperor present in this world. However, since Tian Ling didn’t inform him about the truth herself, it would be inappropriate to inquire about it.
“It will be a long while until the next time we meet again,” Tian Ling said sadly.
Jiang Chen didn’t have a match in all the Three Middle Realms, and if he didn’t go to the Three Upper Realms like the Junior Sword Venerable, Wang Teng, he would just have to go into seclusion to advance into the Great Venerable Realm. Jiang Chen didn’t have any reason to show himself now, and it was especially the case since the Nether World School had already set its eyes on him.
“It won’t be that long.” Jiang Chen still hadn’t made a decision and was waiting to see what the Ice Spirit Clan had prepared for him.
“Please take good care of yourself!” Tian Ling looked at him affectionately, but when, even after a long while, she didn’t hear him say anything, anger couldn’t help but appear in her eyes. In the end, she just bit her lip and left in a bad mood.
After a short while, news that Jiang Chen would go to the Ice Spirit Clan for a marriage spread. At first, no one had believed it, but as they thought about the Ice Spirit Clan’s manner toward Jiang Chen in the Title Battle, they started finding this matter quite fishy. The crowd was curious about such a marriage’s target, and some of them guessed that it would be the Ice Spirit Clan’s saint. The Invincible God of War and the Future Spirit Empress were a good match for each other.
However, no one knew whether this was true, while Jiang Chen had hidden his tracks on purpose, and no one knew where he was. At this moment, Jiang Chen was on the road to the Spirit Zone.
“Elixir Capital is on the edge of the Nine Territories and the Spirit Zone,” Yao Yuntong was next to Jiang Chen, and she stated the trip’s destination. She should have gone along with her father to look for her title’s inheritance, but Yao Tianshi wanted to protect Jiang Chen and had to travel with him for now. The Elixir Capital was the general headquarters of the Elixir Association, and Jiang Chen wanted to go there to make an elixir. He felt that just a map alone wouldn’t be enough to express his sincerity and his feelings for his senior sister.
After they crossed a vast Forbidden Desolate Land, they reached the Spirit Zone. It had a clear and boundless sky and fine sunny weather. Such a sight lifted their moods for the better.
“Come out!” However, Yao Tianshi who stood on the bow of the ship shouted in a deep voice.
Jiang Chen quickly descended from the ship and surveyed the surroundings, but he didn’t see anything.
“It seems like I have to invite you out myself.” Yao Tianshi snapped his fingers and a bolt of lightning flew into an empty place. A miserable scream echoed then, and a corpse fell from there.
“The Nether World School’s killers!”
It was only the Nether World School who possessed an assassination technique able to let one hide among the void.
“You are all in hiding, and it’s really annoying.” Yao Tianshi stretched out his finger toward the sky, and countless lightning chains streaked across the sky and found many people.
“Yao Tianshi, if you continue meddling in other people’s business, your daughter will also become one of our targets,” An eerie voice threatened Yao Tianshi.
“Is that the case?” Yao Tianshi replied, as lightning and thunder echoed and more than ten of the Nether World School’s killers turned into ashes.
“He’s so strong!” Jiang Chen was startled by this. The power of the Mysterious Thunder School’s Master far exceeded his expectations.
“The Nether World School’s killers don’t amount to more than this,” Yao Yuntong spoke disdainfully.
“They are all just cannon fodder, and their true killer move is ahead,” Yao Tianshi said solemnly. The power of the Nether World School’s killers wasn’t limited to just this.
